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Friday, 9 December 2016

Crumbs

I walk the boys this morning so that L can get a good long
swim. The boys and I have quite a long walk, over half an hour anyway, and they both ate
a hearty breakfast afterwards. Even Doggo who we suspect may be finding his
munchies a bit too hard on his old worn down teeth, so we’ve started softening them
with water.

In the afternoon I receive an email from Seetickets offering
me a ticket for Frank Turner’s 2000th show at Rock City next Thursday and I
have two hours to claim it. So I claim it!

I was in the original ballot for tickets and if you didn’t
get one you went on the waiting list in case there were any returns or extra
ones made available. So my name must have come up. That never usually happens.
They were about 10 times oversubscribed.

With the pantomime now in full swing and us track cyclists
generally ousted for the duration we have to grab what crumbs of track time we
can. Oddly one of those crumbs is tonight from 5pm to 7pm as there is no pantomime
performance tonight. As it’s a Friday night this seems rather odd but then the
fact they’re holding a pantomime in a velodrome is pretty odd in the first place.

I leave work a little early for what is supposed to be a
gentler session than the Sunday one. Not so, particularly when the same coach as
the other Sunday turns up and starts doing his six day sixes again (or whatever
it is). The overall standard tonight is lower but the pace isn’t which just means there are more
bodies to be resuscitated afterwards.